CHAPTER XI
DEALINGS IN FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTES AND COIN ETC.
1. Authorised Dealers and Money Changers :-
Authorised Dealer's licence to deal in foreign exchange includes an authority to deal
in foreign currency notes and coin as well. Besides Authorised Dealers, the State Bank has
granted Authorised Money Changer's Licences to the Pakistan nationals and resident
Pakistani firms/companies to purchase foreign currency notes/coin and foreign currency
travellers cheques and to sell foreign currency notes and coin only. This chapter sets out
the regulations which govern the purchase and sale of foreign currency notes and coin.
2. Purchase from the Public :-
All incoming passengers, whether Pakistani or foreign can bring withthem without any
limit foreign currency notes, coin and other instruments which should be freely purchased
by the Authorised Dealers and Authorised Money Changers against payment in Rupees. In all
cases Authorised Dealers should issue a certificate of encashment in the prescribed form
(Appendix V-12) and if so desired by the travellers, the purchase should be endorsed on
the traveller's passport. In cases where the foreign currency offered for sale by a
traveller had been originally obtained from an Authorised Dealer, the repurchase should be
endorsed on the traveller's passport in the case of Pakistan nationals only.
3. Purchase from other Authorised Dealers and Money Changers :-
Authorised Dealers may also purchase foreign currency notes, coin and other
instruments freely from other Authorised Dealers and Money Changers.
4. Non-convertible Currency Notes :-
Many countries have restrictions on import of their own currency notes and do not also
allow their repatriation through banking system. Surplus collection of such foreign
currency notes can be disposed of in the international centres at market rates. Authorised
Dealers should arrange with their overseas branches or correspondents to keep them fully
informed of such restrictions on import and repatriation as also about demonetisation,
currency re-organisation etc., in foreign countries. Such information may also be passed
on by the Authorised Dealers to the Authorised Money Changers who are their customers.
Authorised Dealers should regulate the sale of foreign currency notes etc., to travellers
keeping in view the restriction of the respective countries so that they are not put to
any loss or inconvenience on arrival in the foreign country concerned.
5. Authorised Dealers' Requirements of Foreign Currency Notes :-
Authorised Dealers may replenish freely their stocks of foreign currency notes for
meeting the requirements of their customers either by purchasing them from other
Authorised Dealers or by importing them from their overseas branches and correspondents.
6. Sale to Public :-
Authorised Dealers may sell foreign currency notes and coin to persons proceeding abroad
within the amount of foreign exchange sanctioned by the State Bank or released by the
Authorised Dealers under the authority delegated to them in Chapter XVII subject to
compliance of the provision of pare 43 of that Chapter.
7. Sale to other Authorised Dealers :-
Authorised Dealers may sell freely foreign currency notes and coin to other Authorised
Dealers.
8. Disposal of Surplus Notes :-
When Authorised Dealers are unable to dispose of their holdings of foreign currency
notes and coines by sale to the public or other Authorised Dealers, they may despatch such
surpluses to their agents or correspondents abroad for crediting their value to their
foreign currency accounts.